Received a copy of Crystal Curry's Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium from Slope Editions some months ago. I can't get down to writing much about it.............BECAUSE I can't stop reading the damn book aloud and aloud and aloud...
Winner of Slope Editions 2009's book prize, selected by Dara Weir, Curry's book is a robust, baroque romp. Language as body, words, phrases, lines commingling, sensual--sexual, but not in the pedestrian carnal sense...
Typically, alliteration and assonance in such heavy doses is a cold shower; in this collection, these sterile devices flirt and tease and tickle (my glee was continual, tantric)...
...Look for a more extensive review forthcoming once I can stop myself from reading these poems ALOUD!
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